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The building in the background is the Singer Building, the third tallest building ever destroyed (behind the two World Trade Center towers, of course). It was also the tallest building in the world From 1908-1909.

the caption is wonderfully informative, if your eyes are up to the challenge.

I know its truly NYC in the early 20th century , but it reminds me of the illustrations of that time of what it was thought that the city would look like in the 21st century ala Jules Verne.

Looks like they are traveling up Broadway. Trinity Church (Episcopal) is on the right.

The Empire building was built on the site of the Arcade Blg., where on December 4th, 1891 Henry L. Norcross ,a Boston broker entered the office of Russell Sage the multimillionare moneylender demanding a huge sum of money,threatening to blow everyone up. Sage pushed his $20 a week clerk named Laidlaw at the extortionist and made a dash for the door. Norcross dropped the ten lbs. of dynamite , blowing himself up, killing a bystander and injuring several others. Laidlaw sued Sage, won a $40,000 judgement after a lengthy court battle. However, Sage appealed the decision against him. In the end Laidlaw received nothing.

Another Bain/LOC photo related to the IWW protest at the Standard Oil offices, New York City:

Reno (Nevada) Evening Gazette - April 29, 1914 SOCIALISTS ARE JAILED Make Demonstrastion in Front of Rocefeller Offices in New York NEW YORK, April 29 -- Upton Sinclair, his wife and three other women, were arrested today for a demonstration in front of the offices of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in the Standard Oil Building. The prisoners were taken to the Old Slip Police Sationwhere Mrs. Sinclait was released. The other women who were placed in cells pending their arraignment in court, said they were Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Mrs Margaret Remington Charter and Mrs. Donie Leitner. All had been arrested on the sidewalk in front of 26 Broadway. A woman who said she was a socialist, invaded the outer offices of Mr. Rockefeller and sought an interviewn withy him in reference to the coal miners' strike in Colorado. Rockefeller's secretary told her he was busy at a conference. The woman carried an American flag into the office and described herself as Mrs. Belle N. Zilverman. She was joined on the sidewalk by Upton Sinclair, who wore a bit of crepe on his arm in pursuance of a plan announced at a Socialist mass meeting last night, where it was agreed "that mourners" should gather in front of the Standard Oil Building as a protest against conditions in Colorado. Mrs. Zilverman and Upton were the first to arrive on the scene. Mrs. Zilverman sought to place this message befopre the younger Rockefeller: "I am an American citizen standing before your door, waiting for just a word with you. Will you grant me this request? My question will be brief and to the point." All the prisoners were charged with disorderly conduct, and in a patrol wagon were taken to the Tombs police court. Mrs. Leitner said she was an artiist and her home was in Georgia. While her husband was still locked up, Mrs. Sinclair returned to the scene of the arrests and began pacing slowly back and forth in front of the big building. She wore a white polo coat, the left sleeve of which bore a strip of crepe. Half a dozen men, all wearing crepe, walked with or near her. Perhaps 500 persons paused to witness the sight, but for the time being police made no arrests. Mr. Rockefeller remained secluded in his private office on the fourteenth floor of the building.